The purpose of this blog is to provide a holding, attuned, and provocative space for the mysteries of your heart to unfold. All of you is welcome here, in all of your glory - the painful, the joyous, the heartbroken, and the weary. The invitation is to see your entire life as an expression of high-voltage, creative guidance, and for you to offer yourself to the endless and infinite dimension of love that is emerging within and around you right now.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Love may never feel safe

As you travel the ancient path of the heart, you may discover
that you are always, already safe, in a very primordial sort of way. But the
journey itself may not always *feel* safe.

Re-embodying to your most sacred core vulnerabilities—and
staying with the burning and the metabolization that this path requires—may never
*feel* safe; for the meeting with the beloved one, in all her forms, may never have
been designed to offer this. To stay embodied to all that you are is likely to trigger
some degree of achy panic, as you make the unconditional commitment to offer
sanctuary to all that is being asked to be met within you.

Let us remove the burden of feeling safe from the wild
uncharted territory of the heart—and from our spiritualities and intimate relationships—for
it is not theirs to carry. For when we set aside this responsibility, we
are able to meet life as it is, to enter into relationship with others as they
are, without the requirement that love feel safe.

Perhaps love has not come into your life to provide the
feeling of safety and surety, but to craft you as a translucent vessel of its untamed
movement, which is always of the unknown, ragingly creative, and dripping with qualities
of the unseen.

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I am a psychotherapist, author, and teacher, working with individuals and groups worldwide. My latest book, The Path is Everywhere, will be available in June 2017. To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website.

I have a PhD in psychology, where my research interests included
contemporary psychodynamic/ relational theory as well as mindfulness-based, contemplative approaches to psychological healing and spiritual transformation. I have long been interested in the dialogue
between Western, developmental and meditative methods of
inquiry and practice.

I worked in the publishing field for over 24 years, most recently Director of Professional Studies for Sounds True, where I organized online training for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their practice in areas such as attachment, trauma, neuroscience, and mindfulness.